Senior Program Analyst – Schedule Architect

🔥 20 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $115k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Blue Water Thinking

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🛡️ Insurance

Healthcare • Logistics • Insurance

Blue Water Thinking is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) certified by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The company provides strategy, management, and technology solutions tailored for government agencies. Blue Water Thinking focuses on the healthcare sector, offering health program support, health analytics, and health assessments to improve outcomes for military personnel and veterans. Additionally, the company aids federal agencies in digital transformation, enabling them to harness data and technology to enhance services. Its management advisory services aim to enhance decision-making, transparency, and performance across government programs. Inspired by deep thinking and value innovation, Blue Water Thinking delivers agile, custom solutions to support fiscal stewardship in public sector initiatives.

📋 Description

• Serve as Schedule Architect and P6 Migration Lead for the Integrated Healthcare Transformation initiative at the Department of Veterans Affairs HEFP SEP program • Assess the legacy Microsoft Project Web Access environment and map legacy data elements to P6 destinations with documented rationale and Government approval • Design enterprise P6 architecture, including EPS hierarchy, WBS standards, activity coding dictionary, calendar library, and UDF strategy • Develop standardized fragnets and schedule templates for infrastructure project archetypes • Convert milestone-dominant legacy records into logic-driven activities while preserving milestones and legacy reporting during parallel operations • Establish and report schedule health criteria, including open ends, negative lag, constraints, out-of-sequence progress, excessive float, and missing predecessors or successors • Build and manage master schedules with traceability of program and project milestones • Maintain baselines, control baseline changes, and preserve schedule revision audit trails • Manage schedule data across EHRM, recapitalization, and targeted infrastructure portfolios • Align EHRM NRM Capital Integrated Schedule with the EHRMIO Integrated Master Schedule and coordinate with Oracle Health and VA stakeholders • Coordinate with VISN and VAMC engineering staff, site engineers, design and A/E firms, and general contractors to gather schedule events and establish dependencies • Analyze critical path impacts, downstream program effects, and schedule variance across deployment sites • Identify and escalate schedule risks and support the SEP risk register • Coach and mentor federal program managers, lead engineers, and field staff on schedule interpretation • Develop training aids, job aids, bulletins, quick-reference guides, and SOPs; provide recurring instruction • Build and maintain Power BI and SharePoint reporting views and monitor adoption • Produce weekly Capital Integrated Schedule and Risk/Event Reports, support variance reports, and develop executive reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Information Technology, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree • 8+ years of professional scheduling experience supporting design and construction or capital infrastructure programs, including at least 3 years at a senior or lead level within a multi-project portfolio • Experience converting a milestone-based, spreadsheet-based, or tracking-register system into a logic-driven CPM schedule, including responsibility for data mapping and conversion decisions • Expert-level experience with Oracle Primavera P6 Professional and EPPM, including EPS and WBS design, activity coding, calendar libraries, user-defined fields, global changes, baseline management, and multi-project master schedule administration • Working proficiency with Microsoft Project and Project Web App sufficient to interrogate, extract, and validate legacy scheduling data • Direct Department of Veterans Affairs experience, including VHA, VBA, OCFM, or VISN/VAMC engineering, with knowledge of VA capital project lifecycle, terminology, and governance • Demonstrated training, instruction, or mentoring experience with non-scheduler audiences • Proficiency with Power BI and SharePoint for schedule reporting • Strong analytical, written, verbal communication, and stakeholder-management skills • Ability to support organizational and process change constructively while maintaining positive customer relationships • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future • Must be able to obtain and maintain the required federal public trust clearance for this role • Resume must be submitted in word document format and must include dates in each section • Candidates must fill out the application form to the best of their knowledge

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental and vision) • Paid time off • Federal holidays • Matching 401K plan • Reasonable accommodations throughout the application and hiring process